Japan's Top Management from the Inside

Japan's Top Management from the Inside
Author: M. Yamada
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1998-03-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230373690

A challenge to superficial and mistaken assumptions about Japan's top management among foreign businessmen, such as Japanese management's supposed long-term outlook, slow decision-making, and strong desire for new technologies. The hard facts to destroy these myths is provided, based on interviews with managers in 100 top Japanese firms. Current Japanese management practice is placed in the context of the business relations developed to rebuild the shattered economy after World War Two, and the monumental changes which took place after the crash of the bubble economy in 1992. New scenarios for Japan's future are discussed and examined.

The Business Reinvention of Japan

The Business Reinvention of Japan
Author: Ulrike Schaede
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1503612368

After two decades of reinvention, Japanese companies are re-emerging as major players in the new digital economy. They have responded to the rise of China and new global competition by moving upstream into critical deep-tech inputs and advanced materials and components. This new "aggregate niche strategy" has made Japan the technology anchor for many global supply chains. Although the end products do not carry a "Japan Inside" label, Japan plays a pivotal role in our everyday lives across many critical industries. This book is an in-depth exploration of current Japanese business strategies that make Japan the world's third-largest economy and an economic leader in Asia. To accomplish their reinvention, Japan's largest companies are building new processes of breakthrough innovation. Central to this book is how they are addressing the necessary changes in organizational design, internal management processes, employment, and corporate governance. Because Japan values social stability and economic equality, this reinvention is happening slowly and methodically, and has gone largely unnoticed by Western observers. Yet, Japan's more balanced model of "caring capitalism" is both competitive and transformative, and more socially responsible than the unbridled growth approach of the United States.

Inside Japanese Business: A Narrative History 1960-2000

Inside Japanese Business: A Narrative History 1960-2000
Author: Makota Ohtsu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2015-05-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317467744

This book sheds new light on Japanese management and its social consequences. Since the collapse of the Japanese bubble economy, the once acclaimed Japanese-style management has been under serious criticism both inside and outside Japan, but this is not a new phenomenon: over the last 50 years, evaluation of Japan and Japanese management has fluctuated widely between extreme affirmation and extreme negation. This study is unique because it is a longitudinal analysis that covers 35 years it uses firsthand information from managers in major Japanese corporations; and by involving several of these managers in the research process the views of actual practitioners are made available.

The Far East and Australasia 2003

The Far East and Australasia 2003
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 1724
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781857431339

A unique survey of each country in the region. It includes an extensive collection of facts, statistics, analysis and directory information in one accessible volume.

A History of Top Management in Japan

A History of Top Management in Japan
Author: Hidemasa Morikawa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001-07-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190285052

This book analyzes the top management of leading Japanese enterprises. Drawing on the work of Alfred Chandler, Morikawa demonstrates the difference between family-owned firms and professionally managed firms.

Japanese Management in the Low Growth Era

Japanese Management in the Low Growth Era
Author: Daniel Dirks
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642582575

Japanese firms are in the midst of the most protracted economic crisis in their post-war history. The end of the "bubble economy" has led to a long era of low growth. This change in the general business environment has profound consequences for the management and the organization of corporate Japan, as well as for the theory of the Japanese firm. The contributions to this book cover a broad range of subjects, from the strategies and organizational structures to the management of human resources and innovation processes in the 1990s. These changes are systematically commented on by field specialists from abroad, especially Europe, relating the situation in Japan to comparable developments in other countries.

Japanese Management Structures, 1920–80

Japanese Management Structures, 1920–80
Author: Yoshitaka Suzuki
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349212008

Part of a series on the modern Japanese economy which explores all the major areas of Japanese economic life, this book examines the managerial hierarchies of large-scale Japanese industrial companies since their emergence.

Innovation and Change in Japanese Management

Innovation and Change in Japanese Management
Author: P. Haghirian
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2009-11-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 023025053X

'Innovation and Change in Japanese Management' shows which transformation processes and changes can be observed in Japanese companies in reaction to the economic challenges of the past decade. The book presents new research results and investigates the variety of changes that Japanese corporations and managers have experienced in recent years.

The Changing Face of Japanese Management

The Changing Face of Japanese Management
Author: Keith Jackson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415287456

The practice and perceptions of Japanese management are undergoing fundamental change. This book sets out to identify the essential currents of change and explain how and why these impinge on the experience of managers in Japan.